scariest night of my life!
· bella1 · 01/23/2009 00:36
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Well all you pre-op's BEWARE!!! lap-band is neither"minimally invasive" or"low risk" like they said.ANY SURGERY IS DANGEROUS! I went in mon.morning(1/19/09) and even though I had a temp. of 99.9 Dr. Owens of the Rancho Specialty Hospital of So.Cal. decided to go ahead w/surgery.(I'll try to make this short) surgery at 12pm into post-op at around 1p.m. took 2 hours to come out of anesthesia, as they rushed me out,(barely concsious) home at 3;30pm I felt very woozy,weak and very ill. at around 7pm Itried to get up to use the restroom and passed out cold!! my head slammed into the wall, my kids were hysterical and my husband freaked out of course. this happend 2 more times that night, anytime I tried to get up. We called the hospital, they told me not to get up just lay and rest next day called my surgeon who said "maybe you should come in" uh ya think so dumb-ass, went back at 12pm tues,(had to crawl to my car)they re-admitted me ran tests and gave me 2 blood tansfusions through the night, turns out they cut a blood vessel and I was bleeding internaly.today is thurs. I still feel like crap and wish I never did it. I was a healthy 38 year old,anything can happen!oh yah , I actually gained 5 lbs during this fiasco, if you can believe that! just make surgery your last option!
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Help please
· bella1 · 01/20/2009 05:30
my wife had surgery at 12:00.then we took her home.at 8:00 she tried to go to the bathroom and passed out.any one else had this problem
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has anybody cheated on the pre-op liquid diet
· bella1 · 01/16/2009 03:49
Hi everyone!,I'm new.I am scheduled for surgery on mon. 1/19/09 and have been on the pre-op diet of 2-3 protein shakes and 1 salad w/tuna a day for 11 days now, but almost every day I,ve cheated by having a handfull of no-no snacks,is this a big deal or am I just trippin' also has anyone had Dr. Milton Owens (So.Cal) as they're surgeon?
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